* chore(relay): target each cell's backend service from the same-cap job
The 60 s connection drain timeout merged in #21848 has no safe apply path.
A root plan scoped to the backend services alone still pulls every
`google_compute_instance_template.relay_gce_cell` in as a dependency, and
standing image drift turns all 29 into replacements, so applying it would roll
the fleet at once.
Add `google_compute_backend_service.relay_gce_cell["${TARGET_CELL_ID}"]` to
both plan invocations in the per-cell same-cap job, next to the template and
MIG it already targets, and teach the reviewed plan validator to allow exactly
one extra change: an in-place update of that one cell's backend whose only
changed attribute is `connection_draining_timeout_sec`, landing on the
constant `validate-relay-asia-topology-plan.mjs` exports. Any other attribute,
any other resource, or a backend for another cell still fails the validator.
The accepted update is reported as `connectionDrainUpdate` and kept out of
`changes`, so the apply step's stranded branch and the resume step's drift
branch keep reading the template-and-MIG count they were written against; the
resume branch additionally accepts a plan whose only pending change is that
drain update, which restarts nothing.
Claude-Session: relay-same-cap-targets-cell-backend
* fix(relay): also let the same-cap wave apply this cell's LB request logging
A read-only production plan for production-gce-c7 showed the live US cell
backends carry no `log_config` at all, while relay-gce-cells.tf has declared
`log_config { enable = true, sample_rate = var.relay_gce_cell_log_sample_rate }`
on every cell backend since the Terraform root landed in 3eec77c11a (#18413).
Nothing has applied it because every production apply since is a per-cell
targeted plan that names only the template and the MIG.
So the real canary plan's backend moves two paths, not one:
`["connection_draining_timeout_sec", "log_config.0"]`. The drain-only validator
rejected exactly that plan, which would have stranded the cell mid-wave after
the drain had already started.
Accept both, each optional, for this cell's backend only: the drain landing on
RELAY_CELL_CONNECTION_DRAIN_SECONDS, and a log_config of exactly one block with
`enable = true` and `sample_rate` equal to RELAY_CELL_LOG_SAMPLE_RATE, the
declared default of a variable no environment file overrides. Any third path,
a different sample rate, disabled logging, another cell, or a replacement still
fails. The accepted paths are reported as `backendUpdate`, which the resume
branch now reads instead of the drain-only flag.
Verified against the real production plan: the masked, three-target plan for
production-gce-c7 contains exactly that cell's template, MIG, and backend
service and nothing else, and this validator returns
`{"changes":2,"backendUpdate":["connection_draining_timeout_sec","log_config.0"]}`.
Claude-Session: relay-same-cap-targets-cell-backend
Orca Relay
The relay that connects the Orca mobile app to a desktop host. Phones and desktops never talk to each other directly: each opens an outbound WebSocket to a relay cell, the relay pairs the two sessions, and it splices frames between them. A director assigns hosts to cells and coordinates migrations; cells carry the user connections.
This directory is an independent pnpm workspace inside the Orca monorepo. Run
its commands from cloud/, not the repository root. The source is covered by
the repository's root MIT license.
Packages
packages/relay-contract: the wire contract shared by the relay, the desktop app, and the mobile app (frame shapes, close codes, admission budgets, splice state machine).apps/relay: the relay server. The same image runs as a director or a cell depending onORCA_RELAY_ROLE.apps/relay-fence-broker: a private, IAM-only service that owns the durable mutation lease, the Terraform checkout, and the narrow Compute mutation used when a registered target is superseded. The workflow that calls it holds read and invoke rights only, never those mutation permissions.apps/relay-ops: the relay operations console and the incident monitor behindpnpm ops:relay,pnpm incident:relay, andpnpm incident:relay-preflight.apps/pushandpackages/push-contract: the mobile push gateway that holds the APNs key and sends to phones through APNs and FCM, and its wire contract. It is deployed and operated from here but is not part of the relay data path; see docs/push-gateway.md.
Mobile push gateway
apps/push is a separate Cloud Run service from the relay. Phones never hold an
Orca credential for it: the desktop host authenticates with the same X25519
key it uses for the relay, answering an encrypted challenge to mint a 24 hour
session, then registers each paired phone's native push token and asks the
gateway to push. The gateway queues each event as its own notification,
enforces per-host quotas and request limits, and retires a
registration as soon as Apple or Google reports the token unregistered.
Provider push is the only ordinary mobile OS-banner path. The notification
socket is retained only for live dismissal and reconnect tray reconciliation;
it never creates or recovers banners. Desktop notification categories remain
authoritative.
Each delivery is persisted as one notification event. Before deploying an
incompatible queue format, stop all older push gateway revisions and clear only
unpublished push delivery fixtures; no queue preservation or migration is required.
FCM notification messages are inherently collapsible while offline and have a
small concurrent collapse-key budget, so every pending alert is not guaranteed.
Storage follows the relay pattern: PostgreSQL in production, SQLite for tests
and local development. Configure it with ORCA_PUSH_PUBLIC_URL, ORCA_PUSH_FCM_PROJECT_ID,
ORCA_PUSH_DATABASE_URL, the three APNs variables (ORCA_PUSH_APNS_KEY,
ORCA_PUSH_APNS_KEY_ID, ORCA_PUSH_APPLE_TEAM_ID, all three or none), and
optionally ORCA_PUSH_APNS_TOPIC. The FCM credential comes from
the runtime service account, so no key material is configured for Android. See
push gateway operations for deployment and recovery.
Logging is aggregate counters only. Tokens, notification titles, notification bodies, and full host fingerprints never reach a log line.
Infrastructure and operations
infra/terraform: the relay Terraform root. It owns the cells, the director, the shared Cloud SQL instance, DNS, observability, and every GitHub Workload Identity provider the relay workflows authenticate through.backend/holds the per-environment backend configuration andenvironments/the tfvars. Drive it throughpnpm infra:init,pnpm infra:plan, andpnpm infra:apply.dev/scripts: the deploy, capacity, admission, rehome, monitoring, and load scripts the workflows call, plus the contract tests that pin each workflow and Terraform surface. Run them withpnpm test.dev/contractsanddev/fixtures: the checked-in data those contract tests read, including the Terraform root partition.docs/: the relay runbooks, capacity-testing guide, incident-monitor reference, the workflow variable reference indocs/relay-workflows.md, and the push gateway runbook indocs/push-gateway.md.
Workflows
The 25 .github/workflows/cloud-*.yml workflows are the deploy and operate
surface: publish and deploy the director, roll GCE cell capacity, operate Asia
admission and regional rehoming, prove staging capacity, monitor production,
power staging up and down, and deploy the mobile push gateway.
.github/actions/cloud-sql-rollout-lease is the compare-and-swap lease that
serializes rollouts against the shared Cloud SQL instance. Push reuses that
action with its own lease object and deployment concurrency group.
Every one of them is inert. Each top-level job is gated on
vars.ORCA_CLOUD_OPERATIONS_ENABLED == 'true', a repository variable that is
unset here, so the two scheduled triggers and every manual dispatch skip
without running a step. Only the repository owner, holding the GCP identities
these workflows authenticate as, can turn them on.
Cloud Verify is not gated. It builds, typechecks, lints, tests, secret-scans,
and validates the relay Terraform on every change under cloud/, and it runs
on fork pull requests, so it configures no backend and holds no credential.
What is not here
The terraform-foundation and terraform-apps roots and the API and auth
services live in the private stablyai/orca-cloud repository. Scripts and
tests that spanned both trees were narrowed to the relay side rather than
carrying a dangling reference.
Local development
cd cloud
pnpm install
pnpm build
pnpm test
pnpm test runs the SQLite-backed suites. Tests that need PostgreSQL run only
when ORCA_RELAY_TEST_POSTGRES_URL points at a disposable PostgreSQL 16 or 17
database, for example:
docker run --rm -d --name orca-relay-pg -e POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD=trust \
-e POSTGRES_DB=orca_relay_test -p 55440:5432 postgres:16-alpine
ORCA_RELAY_TEST_POSTGRES_URL=postgres://postgres@127.0.0.1:55440/orca_relay_test \
pnpm --filter @orca-cloud/relay test
docker rm -f orca-relay-pg
Configuration is read from environment variables validated in
apps/relay/src/config.ts. ORCA_RELAY_ASSIGNMENT_SIGNING_KEY (at least 32
bytes) is the only required value; everything else has a local default.